A lottery win turns a Latvian granny into the most popular corpse-in-waiting in cinematic history.
When old auntie Mirta succeeds in a lottery and wins a car which she cannot use herself, all sorts of family members suddenly appear by her side, hoping to get the car after their auntie's death. Until then, they had never helped Mirta, it was only her neighbours who supported her in her old age. Now, her nephew Ēriks with his wife and son, and her ex-daughter-in-law Olita with her second husband and daughter, would all love to get their hands on the car that's in the colour of Midsummer's Eve.
Acting
Lilita Bērziņa's deadpan survival of human parasites.
Writing
Dialogue so cutting it should require insurance.
Direction
Streics makes greed look almost... folkloric.
Director
Janis Streics
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Midsummer's Eve' color was a real Soviet car factory custom option, making the title a sly jab at aspirational consumerism.
Banned from wide release until 1989 for its unflattering portrait of 'Soviet family values'—the censors knew exactly which vultures they were.
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